Also known as Otay Ranch

Where: San Diego County, California (32.6° N, 117.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.5° N, 116.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: subunit 2 Member (San Diego Formation), Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• "sampled by initial dry screening approximately 3000 pounds of bulk matrix through 24 mesh (0.7 mm) stainless steel screens and then water washing the resulting concentrate through the same mesh size"

Primary reference: H. M. Wagner, B. O. Riney, T. A. Deméré and D. R. Prothero. 2001. Magnetic stratigraphy and land mammal biochronology of the nonmarine facies of the Pliocene San Diego Formation, San Diego County, California. Magnetic Stratigraphy of the Pacific Coast Cenozoic (D. R. Prothero, ed.) 359-368 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28237: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 01.02.2003

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